I use GNU Stow to manage dotfiles in the stow
directory. Examples below:
$ mkdir program
$ touch program/.file
$ stow --adopt -nvt dir program # verify command is safe and symlinks .file
$ stow --adopt -vt dir program
$ stow -Dvt ~ zsh
dconf-cinnamon.ini
is exported via dconf dump /org/cinnamon/ > file.ini
and can be loaded with dconf load / < file.ini
This is because ~/.config/dconf
isn't plaintext. See here for more details.